A Trip to Four Winds Brewing Co.

Who doesn’t love Four Winds Brewing? They’ve been winning awards left, right and centre since they opened a year ago. The biggest award is probably their Silver Award for American-Style Brett Beer at the World Beer Cup. Too bad for me that they’re all the way out in Delta, on the other side of the tunnel. We went to visit them back in mid-April during the Easter long weekend. It was a beautiful, relatively stress-free drive! 🙂

NOTE: Four Winds did some renovations on their tasting room in late May, so it probably doesn’t look like how it does in these photos anymore.

The guys there were super-nice and let me freely take photos of the brewery. I got a sneak peek of some beers being barrel-aged 😉

Drive past some wonderful farmland and you’ll come across one of those business park setups…like a strip mall but with warehouses and offices. We saw the Four Winds van parked out on the street, so we knew we were in the right place.

Be sure to check their Twitter and Facebook for their hours during holidays.

Goes without saying! I would go one further and stipulate that you should support craft breweries. If your beer is the product of some mysterious marketing company and they’re not upfront about where the beer is actually brewed, you’re not dealing with the kind of true craft beer that I want to support.

Awards!

Nice tasting room. I wonder how it looks like now, after their renovations. I like the blue and white design motif on the wall. The Four Winds design is smart and classy.

I just realized that the decal on the floor doesn’t actually point in the right direction. (What-everrrrrr Dennis…)

Anyways, you can consider yourself a beer geek if you can identify what those four elements are. Lowest tier of beer geek, but beer geek nonetheless.

2 days agoby dennisthefoodieG I N J A N I N J A // A sparkly, zingy #GingerBeer by @dickiesginger at Riley Park @vanmarkets this morning. Thanks Stephen for the chat! Nong's Khao Man Gai is my fave chicken rice in the PNW, although it's a Thai take on HCR. That place at Aberdeen is Cafe D'Lite Express. If I find a great Hainanese chicken rice here, I'll be sure to post about it! It's about ALL the elements firing on all cylinders! #ginger#dickiesginger#yvr#vancouver

3 days agoby dennisthefoodieC O W F O O T // The most miserable dish from #KarakoramRestaurant on Victoria Drive: #Paya ($13), #beeftrotters ( #cowfeet#cowfoot#cowhooves ) cooked in their "traditional sauce". I struggled to taste anything beyond the moderate saltiness. Empty and thin-tasting. The cow foot resembles pig's feet a lot, with mostly skin, fat, and tendon. The dish is half inedible bone though, with not much marrow and hardly any meat. You gotta love skin, fat, and tendon if you get this dish. Strips of ginger can't save the day. Same layer of oil on top (0.5 cm this time) that I

3 days agoby dennisthefoodieN A A N // #GarlicNaan ($2.50) and sesame seed-studded Roghni Naan ($2.50), plus a plain Naan ($1.50) underneath, all from #KarakoramRestaurant on Victoria Drive. Good naan but I wish it was softer. It seemed to get hard and chewy way too fast. There used to be an Indian place in the 90s where Amay's House is now that had the best garlic naan. We'd get it often to supplement our home cooked meals. This garlic naan has about half the flavour of that stuff. Sigh. #yvr#vancouver

3 days agoby dennisthefoodieN I H A R I // #Nihari ($13) from #KarakoramRestaurant on Victoria Drive. Contains "boneless #beef gravy finely made to taste and granished with #giner and #lemon " and also a 1cm layer of #oil on top. Beef was dry and tough. There's more beef than it looks but not much more. The lemon wedge was simply tossed into the curry before they covered the container, thus you have to fish out a greasy, slippery wedge of lemon if you wanna squeeze it. Nice. I had to skim most of that oil off — I couldn't stand it. Flavour was